Pagano Counseling, LLC

There are many parts of our selves - emotional, spiritual, physical, and cognitive. If any one part should fall out of balance, it negatively impacts our whole being.

About My Practice

My treatment focuses on building healthy coping skills, and includes the use of mindfulness and relaxation techniques. I have worked actively in the field of psychotherapy since 2001, with a primary approach based on cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). I specialize in trauma treatment using Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), an evidenced-based approach.


Areas of Specialty

  • Children
  • Adolescents
  • Individuals with anxiety/depression
  • Individuals with substance use or
    dependence
  • Trauma survivors
  • Victims of domestic violence
  • Veterans and active-duty military
    personnel
  • Veterans and active-duty law enforcement
    personnel

Professional Certifications
and Memberhips

Board certification,
American Psychotherapy
Association (APA)

  • Certified, New Jersey
    Disaster Response
    Crisis
    Counselor (NJDRCC)
  • Member, Eye Movement
    Desensitization
    and
    Reprocessing
    International
    Association
    (EMDRIA)
  • Member, American
    Counseling Association (ACA)
  • Member, New Jersey
    Counseling Association (NJCA)
  • Responder, New Jersey
    Traumatic Loss Coalition (TLC)
  • Board of Directors and
    Past
    President, Soroptomist
    International
    of Suburban Essex
    (SISE)

Career Experience

  • Outpatient therapy
  • Residential services
  • Community-based services
  • Assessments
  • Treatment coordination
  • Prevention education
  • Crisis intervention
  • Personnel training
  • Mental illness
  • Developmental disabilities
  • Addiction/use disorders
  • Corrections
  • Domestic violence
  • Quality assurance
  • Court-mandated interventions

Education

College of St. Elizabeth,
Morristown, New Jersey

  • Master of Arts,
    Counseling Psychology
  • Bachelor of Arts,
    Psychology

Pagano Counseling, LLC

525 Boulevard, Suite #2    
Kenilworth, New Jersey 07033
Phone 973-936-8556


The State of New Jersey.
NJ Division of Consumer Affairs.

NJ Division of Consumer Affairs
Professional Counselor,
Marriage & Family Therapy
License No. 37PC00403500


Verified by Psychology Today.

Office hours are
currently by appointment only.

Our location provides off-street
parking and is handicap accessible.

Emergency Situations

If you have an emergency (thoughts of harming yourself or someone else), immediately call 911 to be taken to your local emergency room.

The Pagano Counseling website, its email address, phone number and contact page are NOT to be used for emergency situations. These services are not intended and are not appropriate for such situations and lack the support and immediacy needed for emergency situations.

Other Crisis Resources

Mobile Crisis
Hotlines For Children

  • Union County, New Jersey  
    (908-351-6684)
  • Middlesex County, New Jersey  
    (800-969-5300)